Möbius scarf
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livredorMy first knitting project was a little skull-cap, and I had a lot of fun with it. But that was a couple of years back, and I failed to get started again on the next project. ghoti_mhic_uait found me a pattern for a Möbius scarf, which is cool but relatively simple for my second ever project, and helped me to buy pretty purple wool and circular needles. But there is a complicated cast-on which I really struggled to learn from the video tutorial, so I got stalled for, um, years.
This weekend I actually got started again!ghoti_mhic_uait sat with me while I followed along with the tutorial and was helpful. I t thought I'd got the hang of it and it was getting late, so I sent her home, and tried to complete the cast-on by myself. But not being used to circular needles, I ended up essentially knitting on the cables, which turned out to be a terrible idea because the cables are about 10X smaller than the needles I was supposed to be using, so I knitted ridiculously too tight and couldn't get the stitches back onto the needles in order to start the first row.
I was determined to try again today, though, and not lose momentum again. It turned out for the best that I had to unpick everything and restart, because I had misunderstood something quite critical from the tutorial. I was leaving out one turn of the needles, so I kind of ended up knitting the cable into the cast-on. I was able to twist it back out again, but my cast-on stitches in the first attempt weren't valid. Also having watched the tutorial again I needed to count differently; I was counting doubled stitches, which Bordhi's method produces, but I am fairly sure the pattern actually requires 200 double stitches, not 100 pairs.
Knitting the first row was quite hard work and I am not completely sure I've got the cast-on right or that I actually have a Möbius strip. But it seems to be getting easier as I transition from weird cast-on to normal knitting. I reckon at this point the failure mode of Möbius scarf is, well, a scarf (or a buff, really, it's going to be a loop not a line due to the circular knitting). And perhaps a slightly bumpy / rustic one, but that's also ok. And getting back to knitting is making me happy.
ghoti_mhic_uait found me a pattern for a Möbius scarf, which is cool but relatively simple for my second ever project, and helped me to buy pretty purple wool and circular needles. But there is a complicated cast-on which I really struggled to learn from the video tutorial, so I got stalled for, um, years.This weekend I actually got started again!
ghoti_mhic_uait sat with me while I followed along with the tutorial and was helpful. I t thought I'd got the hang of it and it was getting late, so I sent her home, and tried to complete the cast-on by myself. But not being used to circular needles, I ended up essentially knitting on the cables, which turned out to be a terrible idea because the cables are about 10X smaller than the needles I was supposed to be using, so I knitted ridiculously too tight and couldn't get the stitches back onto the needles in order to start the first row. I was determined to try again today, though, and not lose momentum again. It turned out for the best that I had to unpick everything and restart, because I had misunderstood something quite critical from the tutorial. I was leaving out one turn of the needles, so I kind of ended up knitting the cable into the cast-on. I was able to twist it back out again, but my cast-on stitches in the first attempt weren't valid. Also having watched the tutorial again I needed to count differently; I was counting doubled stitches, which Bordhi's method produces, but I am fairly sure the pattern actually requires 200 double stitches, not 100 pairs.
Knitting the first row was quite hard work and I am not completely sure I've got the cast-on right or that I actually have a Möbius strip. But it seems to be getting easier as I transition from weird cast-on to normal knitting. I reckon at this point the failure mode of Möbius scarf is, well, a scarf (or a buff, really, it's going to be a loop not a line due to the circular knitting). And perhaps a slightly bumpy / rustic one, but that's also ok. And getting back to knitting is making me happy.
